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Re: Crush: Glamourous AI coding agent for your favourite terminal

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Post by drdaeman »

smokel wrote: post #63
jsnell wrote: post #59

I find it strange how most of these terminal-based AI coding agents have ended up with these attempts at making text UIs flashy. Tons of whitespace, line art, widgets, ascii art and gradients, and now apparently animations. And then what you don't get is the full suite of expected keybindings, tab completion, consistent scrollback, or even flicker-free text rendering. (At least this one seems to not be written with n…

They are easier to make than full-fledged user interfaces, so you get to see more of them.

Well, they all seem to have issues with multi-line selection, as those get all messed up with decorations, panes and whatever noise is there. To best of my awareness, the best a TUI can do is to implement its own selection (so, alt-screen, mouse tracking, etc. - plenty of stuff to handle, including all the compatibility quirks) and use OSC 52 for clipboard operations, but that loses the native look-and-feel and terminal configuration.

(Technically, WezTerm's semantic zones should be the way to solve this for good - but that's WezTerm-only, I don't think any other terminal supports those.)

On the other hand, with GUIs this is not an issue at all. And YMMV, but for me copying snippets, bits of responses and commands is a very frequent operation for any coding agent, TUI, GUI or CLI.

Re: Crush: Glamourous AI coding agent for your favourite terminal

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Post by teh_klev »

bluelightning2k wrote: post #152

Is this the company that did shady things by buying an open source repo and kicking out the contributors? Something to do with OpenCode or SST or something idk. Could be a different company ?

Yes, this is that company. This is the "original":

https://github.com/sst/opencode

Re: Crush: Glamourous AI coding agent for your favourite terminal

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Post by anp »

wglb wrote: post #157
jrm4 wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If true, GOOD. I 100% unironically believe we're better off more script kiddies today, not fewer.

Out of curiosity, why is that?

Not GP but as a 90s kid who didn’t learn programming until my 20s my impression is that script kiddies with cute hacks are a huge source of creativity. And maybe even playful tools, which I personally enjoy. Something about not focusing on deep programming or tech maybe makes it easier to just have fun and accomplish your goals.

Re: Crush: Glamourous AI coding agent for your favourite terminal

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Post by beanjuiceII »

navanchauhan wrote: post #21
Aperocky wrote: post #7

The big question - which one of these new agents can consume local models to a reasonable degree? I would like to ditch the dependency on external APIs - willing to trade some performance in lieu.

sst/opencode

has a ton of bugs

Re: Crush: Glamourous AI coding agent for your favourite terminal

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Post by beanjuiceII »

imjonse wrote: post #124
cristea wrote: post #2

I would love a comparison between all these new tools, like this with Claude Code, opencode, aider and cortex. I just can’t get an easy overview of how each tool works and is different

This used to be opencode but was renamed after some fallout between the devs I think.

yea two of the devs did a crazy rug pull

Re: Crush: Glamourous AI coding agent for your favourite terminal

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Post by QuadmasterXLII »

jsnell wrote: post #59

I find it strange how most of these terminal-based AI coding agents have ended up with these attempts at making text UIs flashy. Tons of whitespace, line art, widgets, ascii art and gradients, and now apparently animations. And then what you don't get is the full suite of expected keybindings, tab completion, consistent scrollback, or even flicker-free text rendering. (At least this one seems to not be written with n…

I have a sneaking suspicion claude code is tui just because that’s more convenient for running on ephemeral vms (no need to load a desktop os, instant ssh compatibility) and that they didn’t realize everyone would be raw dogging —dangerously-no-permissions on their laptop’s bare metal OS

Re: Crush: Glamourous AI coding agent for your favourite terminal

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Post by tough »

riotnrrd wrote: post #49
cristea wrote: post #2

I would love a comparison between all these new tools, like this with Claude Code, opencode, aider and cortex. I just can’t get an easy overview of how each tool works and is different

One of the difficulties -- and one that is currently a big problem in LLM research -- is that comparisons with or evaluations of commercial models are very expensive. I co-wrote a paper recently and we spent more than $10,000 on various SOTA commercial models in order to evaluate our research. We could easily (an cheaply) show that we were much better than open-weight models, but we knew that reviewers would ding us…

you have the separate the model , from the interface, imho.

you can totally evaluate these as GUI's, and CLI's and TUI's with more or less features and connectors.

Model quality is about benchmarks.

aider is great at showing benchmarks for their users

gemini-cli now tells you % of correct tools ending a session

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